India, May 25 -- Since March, Maaya Rajeshwaran Revathi has been consistently playing clay court tournaments. She has fared pretty well too. Of the seven tournaments she played, she reached a quarter-final, two semi-finals, and won the title at the J300 event in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France.

Clay can be a difficult surface to adjust to, but the 16-year-old from Coimbatore has found her footing on the red dust.

"The fact that I'm based in Europe, I've been training on clay a bit more than I did earlier," said Maaya, who trains at the Rafael Nadal Academy in Mallorca, in a virtual interview organised by the Sports Authority of India (SAI). "The more matches I play, the more I get to train on a certain surface, the more comfortable I feel."

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